Household Waste Recycling Centre Team Leader

Lead the Way in Sustainability – Join Our Recycling Revolution!
Are you passionate about making a real difference to the environment and your community? As part of Staffordshire’s Sustainability and Waste Management Service, you’ll play a vital role in shaping a greener future. Our service is at the heart of responsible waste disposal and recycling, operating 14 household waste recycling centres and driving innovative solutions for waste treatment and recovery.

We’re looking for a dynamic Team Leader to inspire and guide our dedicated team, ensuring smooth operations and exceptional customer service. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to contribute to sustainability, efficiency, and community leadership, this is your chance to make an impact where it truly matters.

In this role you'll:

• Run the Household Waste Recycling Centre safely, efficiently, and in line with environmental permits.
• Provide clear, hands‑on leadership on site, setting high standards for customer service, safety and cleanliness
• Supervise site staff, including completing inductions, managing absences, allocating daily tasks.
• Encourage and enforce high recycling rates.
• Open and close the HWRC in line with agreed opening hours, completing all required safety and site checks.
• Monitor waste and recycling container levels and site stock, working with haulage contractors to ensure the site always has enough capacity.
• Complete and maintain accurate records and paperwork, including Duty of Care documentation, waste transfer notes, consignment records.
• Safely operate and oversee mobile plant and carrying out daily checks and reporting any faults or defects.
• Enforce site rules, traffic management arrangements, and charging or permit policies to keep the site safe and well organised.
• Supervise site users, contractors, and visitors to ensure health, safety, and environmental rules are followed at all times.
• Record and report accidents, near misses, unsafe behaviour, or rule breaches in line with Council procedures.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping, keeping the site, buildings, and surrounding areas clean, tidy, and free from litter.
• Keep daily site logs and visitor records as required for legal and operational purposes.
• Work weekends and bank holidays and travel to other HWRC sites across Staffordshire when needed.

You'll need:

• Ability to safely operate site equipment and carry out basic daily checks.
• Confident team leader, able to supervise and motivate staff.
• Good communication skills and a helpful, customer‑focused approach.
• Ability to apply site rules and health & safety procedures fairly and professionally.
• Well organised, able to manage a busy workload and adapt to change.
• Able to complete simple paperwork and use electronic systems accurately.
• Positive, reliable, and professional with a strong focus on safety and the environment.
• Able to work weekends and bank holidays.
• Willing to travel between HWRC sites across Staffordshire.
• Physically able to work outdoors in an operational environment.

Interview dates will be week commencing 2nd February.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so for an informal chat about the role please contact Danny Wraxton - HWRC Operations Manager at: Danny.wraxton@staffordshire.gov.uk

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.